$750m for DARPA's Mach 6 'Blackswift' Demonstrator

Posted at: Sat Jan 26th, 2008

The Pentagon's 2009 budget request will include $750 million for DARPA's hypersonic "Blackswift" demonstrator program. The program's aim is to develop a fighter-sized Mach 6 unmanned demonstrator. "The aircraft will be unmanned and about the size of an F-16", ...